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Fading Glory In Ashes Ep
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00:00Before the Witch Clan's curse spread to the town, my mother was sold to the Black Market by my father.
00:05A human woman, exchanged for ten loaves of bread.
00:08Before they dragged her away, she gripped my arm hard enough to do the mark.
00:12Lyra, go to the North Stronghold.
00:15Find Alpha Simus. He's the leader of Iron Moonpack.
00:18He's your real father. He'll take you in!
00:24He will take you in.
00:26And because of those words, I embarked on a very long journey.
00:30I don't know how long I walked. I was covered in wounds.
00:36But when I found Alpha Silas, he was mounted on the most magnificent direwolf I'd ever seen.
00:41A small girl cradled in his arms.
00:43At the packed boundary, he looked down at me from above.
00:46A hybrid born of a human woman who betrayed me.
00:49And you dare claim to be my child?
00:51He savored the fear on my face and said contemptuously.
00:54Go tell your mother this.
00:56Even if you're truly my flesh and blood, born from her, you still don't belong in my clan.
01:02I am very hungry and desperately want to get food.
01:06Can I be a beggar then?
01:08Could you spare me one silver coin to buy a piece of dry bread right now?
01:12He felt as if he had heard a joke.
01:16If you want to beg, send her to do it herself.
01:19He rode his direwolf through the shimmering barrier of the wolf pack's territory and vanished.
01:25I was left alone in the snow.
01:27That girl, her skin was soft and delicate, as if she had been immersed in milk her whole life.
01:33Although fate is unclear, I will never give up.
01:37The Beta Gate sentry had dead eyes and a meaner snarl.
01:41What are you staring at?
01:42He slowly approached me, his words full of sarcasm.
01:47The Alpha said you're not fit to enter.
01:49Get lost before you contaminate the grounds!
01:53I ran to the alley next to the border wall,
01:56crouched in the shadows,
01:59pressed one hand against my empty stomach,
02:01and stared at the gate.
02:03Mother lied.
02:04Alpha Silas would never claim me.
02:06He had that direwolf,
02:07and those polished silver bracers,
02:09and not one coin to spare for a starving child at his door.
02:13He said,
02:13If you want anything,
02:15have your mother come herself.
02:16But mother was dead,
02:17sold into the flesh market.
02:19Dusk bled across the sky,
02:21the wind coming off the iron moon,
02:23cut like a silver blade.
02:24I crouched in the alley,
02:26watching pack wolves in fine pelts
02:28pass through the gates.
02:29Alphas and Betas and their kept Omegas,
02:32all of them fed,
02:33none of them looking at me.
02:35I thought of my mother.
02:36Mama,
02:37I'm so hungry.
02:40And I thought about my brother.
02:43Gallows had meant to kill me that night.
02:46He risked his life to save me.
02:48Sister,
02:49run!
02:51Later,
02:52when Gallows wasn't watching,
02:54I chewed through the rope,
02:55and went.
02:57Snow started to fall,
02:59soft and relentless.
03:02The cold worked into my bones.
03:04Where else can I go?
03:07Three years from the eastern settlements
03:09to Iron Moon,
03:10the war between the rich man
03:12and the werewolves that soaked
03:14the entire continent in Throckmode.
03:16And humans were the lowest form
03:18of existence in this world.
03:21Along the way,
03:22to stay alive,
03:22I had long since abandoned
03:24every shred of dignity.
03:25Roots,
03:26field rats,
03:27scraps from garbage heaps.
03:29I kept myself smeared with mud and rot,
03:31so nobody could tell
03:32what I was at a glance.
03:33I wanted my blood father
03:34to see something worth acknowledging.
03:36I wanted him to claim me
03:38so I could use pack resources
03:39to avenge my mother and brother.
03:41But now,
03:42I can't do anything.
03:43He hasn't accepted me.
03:45Huh.
03:46Mama,
03:46I'm so useless.
03:48I curled tighter against the wall,
03:50snowmelt soaked through my collar.
03:52I can only find food
03:54in the trash cans
03:55of a day.
03:56I let my eyes close,
03:57just a moment's sleep.
03:59But bigger trouble
04:01is on its way.
04:04Hey,
04:05there's a girl here.
04:08Perfect timing.
04:09The breeder house
04:10on the west side
04:11needs fresh Omega stock.
04:13Young ones,
04:13this one will do.
04:16They grabbed my wrists
04:17and ankles.
04:19My body was burning
04:20with fever,
04:21frozen,
04:22and hollow all at once.
04:25I watched the pulse jump
04:27in the bigger one's throat,
04:28tightened my grip
04:29on the shard of bone blade.
04:31I'd been hiding in my sleep.
04:32Just as I was about to use it,
04:34the sound of wolf hooves
04:35shook the street.
04:37It turned out
04:38that my father
04:39had arrived.
04:42The two scoundrels
04:43were terrified.
04:44Iron Moon!
04:45I was overjoyed.
04:47Had he come to save me?
04:49Both rogues
04:50flinched to their knees
04:51by instinct.
04:52What do you think
04:53you're doing?
04:54That is what
04:55Alpha Dominance
04:55does to lower ranks.
04:57My lord,
04:58we were, uh,
04:59we were taking the girl
05:00to find her
05:02some medicine.
05:05Medicine.
05:06He made a sound
05:07that promised an ending.
05:08Then his eyes
05:09landed on my face.
05:10The boundary torches
05:11caught my features,
05:12carved from the same
05:13cold template
05:14as his own.
05:15Father.
05:17His jaw tightened.
05:19Then he laughed.
05:21So it's you.
05:24You are just like
05:25your mother,
05:26weak and powerless.
05:28His tone
05:28carried a suppressed fury.
05:30When he finished speaking,
05:31he turned
05:32and rode back
05:33through the gate.
05:35The heavy boundary seal
05:36boomed shut
05:37behind him.
05:39He abandoned
05:41me again.
05:42The two scoundrels
05:43seemed brightened.
05:44She just called the Alpha.
05:45Father?
05:46Above the gate
05:47was the Iron Moon
05:48tribe's crest,
05:49a deep red
05:50like aged blood.
05:51Something hollowed out
05:52in my chest,
05:53wide and permanent.
05:55Take me with you.
05:56My heart
05:57is dead.
05:59Tonight,
05:59snow is heavy.
06:00She'll die out here.
06:02The Breeder house
06:03at least has food
06:04and a roof.
06:05Maybe we should
06:06find a healer first,
06:08then...
06:09But she called
06:10the Alpha Father!
06:12The boundary gate
06:12was kicked open
06:13from the inside.
06:17Alpha Silas
06:18walked out,
06:19his face carved
06:20from ice.
06:21How are you
06:22this worthless?
06:25I closed my eyes.
06:27I didn't want
06:28to see his face,
06:29but he crouched down
06:30and gathered me up.
06:32In that single instant,
06:33I drove the bone blade
06:34I'd been saving
06:35into his stomach.
06:36I looked straight
06:38into his disbelieving eyes.
06:40You don't have
06:41to claim me.
06:43Fine.
06:44But if you won't
06:45let me live
06:46then we die together.
06:50He went to his knees,
06:52one arm locked
06:52around my back,
06:53the other hand
06:54clamped over mine
06:55on the blade.
06:56Hot blood welled
06:57through my fingers.
06:59dripped onto the snow.
07:01Pax sentries rushed out
07:02with silver-tipped pole arms,
07:04then froze
07:04at one glance from him.
07:06He looked at me,
07:07just looked,
07:08for a long,
07:08quiet moment.
07:09Something shifted
07:10in his eyes.
07:11Those eyes.
07:12A flicker of dark,
07:13twisted recognition.
07:14Wolf cub eyes.
07:15He agreed with me.
07:16You have some of my blood
07:17in you after all.
07:19The ferocity,
07:21at least.
07:22A pity I said nothing
07:23about not letting you live.
07:25I glanced toward
07:25where the rogues had been,
07:27and this so-called alpha
07:28was genuinely formidable.
07:31What a shame.
07:32I understand that
07:33to gain his approval,
07:34I must be even more ruthless.
07:36I looked back at him,
07:38ground my teeth.
07:38I've decided to give it
07:40my all-one last time.
07:41I plunged the dagger
07:43into his body again.
07:44He gripped my hand tightly,
07:46his grip as strong as iron.
07:48I couldn't break free
07:49from his wrist at all.
07:51Every time I strained,
07:52my skull split with pain.
07:54A moment later,
07:55everything went white.
07:57I woke to cold water
07:58on my face.
07:59Richly furnished chamber,
08:01an older female
08:01pack servant stood over me,
08:03smirking,
08:03Little hybrid bastard,
08:05thinking you deserve
08:06to be served?
08:07Why didn't you just die?
08:09She grabbed my collar
08:10and forced a bowl
08:11of cold, congealed fat rock
08:13between the lips.
08:14The grease hit the back
08:15of my throat.
08:16I couldn't break the grip,
08:17so I drove my heel
08:18into the ceiling instead.
08:20The bowl shattered
08:21on the floor.
08:22You filthy half-blood!
08:24She grabbed a chair
08:25from the bedside
08:26and swirking the skull.
08:27I rolled,
08:28snatched the candle holder,
08:30buried the metal spike
08:31in my abdomen.
08:32The scream brought
08:33the whole compound running.
08:34The chamber door slammed open.
08:36Alpha Silas stormed in,
08:37fuming behind him.
08:39A woman led the little
08:40Omega Girl by the hand.
08:41The woman screamed
08:42at the sight of the servant,
08:43bleeding on the floor.
08:45Where did this Mongol come from,
08:46daring to injure a werewolf?
08:49Today I'll show you
08:50what the rules of werewolves are.
08:51Before he left
08:52and slapped her in the head,
08:53I grabbed her arm
08:54and bit down on her neck,
08:55then spat directly
08:56onto her violently
08:57heated chest.
08:58She let out a piercing shriek.
09:00She scrambled frantically
09:01to pull off her clothes,
09:02but a number of low-ranking
09:04Omegas had just followed
09:05her into the room.
09:06She couldn't actually
09:07strip in front of them,
09:09so she could only cry,
09:10then grabbed the child
09:11and fled.
09:12Alpha Silas' face
09:13went cold as iron.
09:14Where is your mother?
09:14Tell me right now.
09:16I want to know
09:17what kind of creature
09:17she raised.
09:19I gave him one flat look,
09:21turned away
09:21from his self-righteous mouth,
09:26leaned over the side
09:27of the bed
09:28and shoved two fingers
09:29down my throat.
09:30The cold greets
09:31came back up
09:32across the stone floor.
09:33Silence.
09:34That servant
09:35was trying to kill me.
09:37I pointed
09:38at the cold suit
09:39on the floor.
09:40Cold fat broth
09:40poured into
09:41a starving stomach.
09:42That's not
09:42nursing technique.
09:44That's execution method.
09:46Cold broth.
09:46He looked down
09:47at the spilled bowl.
09:48The servant
09:48was in the wrong,
09:49but you had no cause
09:50to attack Selene.
09:51She is innocent.
09:52She is your aunt.
09:53She is your mother's
09:55younger sister.
09:55Her mate died.
09:56She's living here
09:57under pack protection.
09:58Don't invent
09:59the same paranoid
10:00stories your mother did.
10:01Stories?
10:01Her belly says otherwise.
10:03That child's origins
10:04are not your concern.
10:06You only need to know
10:08she poses
10:09no threat to you.
10:10He clenched his fists
10:11in anger.
10:11He scratched his head.
10:13Your mother?
10:14Where is she?
10:16Whatever monstrous
10:17thing she made of you,
10:18I intend to tell her
10:20myself.
10:20I said nothing.
10:22She's dead.
10:22Flatly, like stating
10:23the letter of the pack.
10:24My face snapped
10:25sideways.
10:26You don't say
10:26things like that.
10:27Not about your own blood.
10:30I raised my hand
10:31and stared at the
10:32bloodstained bandage
10:33around his waist.
10:34I should have
10:35aimed higher.
10:36I should have
10:36gone for the heart.
10:39The eastern settlements.
10:41Three years ago
10:42when the witch clan
10:42seized control,
10:43Gallows sold her
10:44into the flesh market
10:45another blow
10:46before I could brace.
10:48Stop lying.
10:50Tomorrow you take me
10:51to her.
10:52Living or dead,
10:53I want proof.
10:55I want to see
10:56what kind of life
10:57she built
10:58after she betrayed me.
11:01You couldn't ask
11:02for food?
11:03You had to let
11:03yourself collapse?
11:04This is a bid
11:05for sympathy?
11:06I did ask
11:07before you
11:08recognized me.
11:09I asked if you
11:10could spare one coin.
11:11I said I wanted
11:12to buy something
11:13to eat.
11:13A flicker of something
11:14unnatural crossed
11:15his face.
11:16He remembered.
11:18Call me father.
11:20I didn't say anything.
11:21I just looked at him
11:22quietly.
11:23He narrowed his eyes.
11:24Can't speak?
11:25Won't?
11:26Then starve!
11:28He stormed out
11:29the door in anger.
11:30The servant who stayed
11:32was small,
11:32barely older than me.
11:34The moment the door shut,
11:35she took a piece of cake
11:36and put it in my hand.
11:38I'll sneak more
11:39from the kitchen.
11:39I looked at her
11:40in surprise.
11:41I held the cake
11:42under my nose
11:42and breathed in,
11:44cold but soft,
11:45fragrant.
11:46For me?
11:47You're hungry.
11:48I can tell.
11:49You're older than me
11:50but smaller.
11:52You haven't eaten
11:53properly in ages.
11:54Not really.
11:56At the start,
11:56it was three days
11:57hungry for every nine.
11:58At the worst,
11:59I eat everything.
12:01Does that disgust you?
12:02She smiled.
12:03Slightly.
12:04Then,
12:04she hugged me tightly.
12:06You've suffered so much.
12:08It was the first time
12:09since my mother
12:10and brother died
12:10that anyone
12:11had touched me
12:12with gentleness.
12:14I could tell the difference
12:15between real
12:16and performance.
12:17Always could.
12:19At least here
12:19there was food.
12:20Her name was Quinn.
12:21Eastern Settlements.
12:22Same as me.
12:23A half-blood.
12:24She'd fled the collapse
12:25of her parents
12:25and sold herself
12:26into pack service.
12:27Indested service
12:28beats the flesh market
12:29in a farm year.
12:30I'm sorry,
12:31I...
12:32Don't be.
12:34You're only saying
12:35what's true.
12:36I comforted her.
12:37The pack compound bed
12:38was obscenely soft,
12:40furs thick.
12:41Quinn heated water
12:42to bring my fever down
12:43and while she worked
12:44and while she worked
12:44she talked.
12:45Once.
12:46Five days
12:47without finding food.
12:48My father took his own knife
12:50and cut into his arm
12:51to feed us.
12:52Kept us alive
12:53long enough
12:54to reach Iron Moon territory.
12:56Her father lost
12:57the arm to infection.
12:58The pack compound
12:59wouldn't take a cripple
13:00so he lived in a tent
13:01outside the walls
13:02hauling waste
13:02from high bloods
13:03who wouldn't touch it
13:04themselves.
13:05Quinn and her mother
13:06visited whenever they could.
13:07I listened
13:08and said nothing
13:09and felt an ache
13:10I had no name for.
13:13Your father
13:13is the best father
13:14in the world.
13:15If only my mother
13:16had found someone like that.
13:18But she had no such luck.
13:19From as early
13:20as I could remember
13:21Gallows would rent her out
13:22because my mother
13:23was beautiful.
13:24He would have her
13:25pretend to be an Omega
13:26and go to other households
13:27to bear hybrid children
13:28for them
13:29since a hybrid status
13:30was higher than humans.
13:32If she still refused
13:33he'd grab me
13:33by the throat
13:34and lift.
13:35Then she would go quietly.
13:36We were rarely together.
13:38I missed her constantly
13:39but every time
13:40she came back
13:41she always found
13:41one piece of sugar
13:42somewhere.
13:43Pressed it into my hand.
13:46Sweet things
13:47make a hard life
13:48easier Lyra.
13:54The next morning
13:55Alpha Silas
13:56pressed a palm
13:57to my forehead
13:57The fever's down.
13:58Put on clothes.
13:59You're taking me
13:59to your mother.
14:00Yanked me from the bed
14:01and told me to get dressed.
14:02The stolen clothes
14:03didn't fit.
14:04Quinn fussed
14:05with the lacing
14:06then quietly asked
14:07Alpha Silas
14:08if she could lend me her own.
14:09Your mother still loves
14:09her little tricks
14:10trying to make me feel
14:11sorry for you.
14:12There's nothing
14:12she won't stoop to.
14:13He gave me a mildly
14:14irritated look
14:15then sent for a trader.
14:17Three sets of clothes
14:18arrived.
14:19None fit.
14:19The trader stared
14:20at me and exhaled.
14:21Eleven years old.
14:22This is a child
14:23of eight at most.
14:24Nothing but skin
14:24and winter wind.
14:26My best cuts
14:27can't hang on this.
14:28Alpha Silas
14:29stared at my wrists.
14:30Something complicated
14:31moved through his face.
14:32Find something that fits.
14:33The trader came back
14:34with plainer cuts.
14:36Well made.
14:36Warm.
14:37With a lynx fur collar.
14:38I didn't care about style.
14:40After three years
14:41of single layer stolen rags
14:42the fox fur lining
14:44against my skin
14:45was almost too much
14:46to process.
14:47We were nearly
14:48to the pack boundary
14:49when Selene appeared.
14:50She drifted down
14:51the corridor in robes.
14:52That particular
14:53graceful frailty
14:54that powerful men
14:55tend to mistake
14:56for virtue.
14:57My what fine fabric.
14:59The Alpha is generous
15:00even with those
15:01who've shown him
15:02no loyalty.
15:02Alpha Silas
15:03let go of my wrist
15:04and vaulted onto
15:05his direwolf
15:06without looking at her.
15:08She carries my blood.
15:10Feed her,
15:10clothe her,
15:11that much is simple.
15:13The resemblance
15:14is interesting
15:15but she's undersized.
15:17Could be coincidence.
15:19Could be your blood.
15:20These things require
15:21verification, Alpha.
15:23I'll handle it
15:24my own way.
15:25Once I find her mother
15:26I'll have answers.
15:27Your sister went missing
15:28eleven years ago.
15:29I've missed my sister.
15:31Perfect.
15:31Liar.
15:32Eleven years.
15:33May I come?
15:35I'll take good care of Phoebe.
15:37I won't get in anyone's way.
15:38He yielded.
15:40She won again.
15:41Extra servants
15:42crowded carriages.
15:43A trap in campsite.
15:46I would not ride
15:47with that snake.
15:48Reason.
15:50If you don't want to get hurt
15:52you'd better stay away from me.
15:53I'm worried she'll hurt the child
15:55and blame it on me.
15:55And I'm worried
15:56I won't be able to stop myself
15:57from cutting her throat.
15:58You!
15:58You're exactly like my sister.
15:59Vicious.
16:01Paranoid.
16:01You can't possibly be his.
16:03You must be some bastard
16:04your mother conceived
16:05with another man
16:05after she betrayed the Alpha.
16:06Sleep with one eye open.
16:07I may come visiting.
16:08Feral hybrid.
16:11Come up.
16:12He called me Feral.
16:14He wasn't wrong.
16:15I chose the cold carriage
16:16over his games.
16:17I'd rather be cold
16:18than caged.
16:20When Selene approached
16:21to board
16:22she was met with
16:23the fresh bone blade
16:24I'd ground
16:24from a broken bowl.
16:25The first one
16:26Alpha Silas had confiscated.
16:28Your mother killed herself
16:30so they'd let you
16:30through my mother's family.
16:32After that
16:33you took my mother's betrothed.
16:35I pointed
16:35the knife at her.
16:37And then you decided
16:38you wanted her Alpha.
16:39That's not...
16:40Lion and I loved each other
16:42and I have never
16:43with the Alpha.
16:45We are completely nothing.
16:47He protected her.
16:48Always.
16:49Satisfied.
16:50I gave him what he wanted.
16:52My mother is in
16:53Ravamoor County.
16:55Western Territory.
16:56He didn't say anything.
16:58Let's move.
16:58He just waved his hand.
16:59The moment we passed
17:00beyond his pack's boundary
17:02his beta had already
17:03prepared a new coach
17:04for Selene.
17:06Selene came down.
17:07Alpha.
17:08You've done too much for me.
17:10Wasting so many resources
17:12on my account again.
17:13It's nothing.
17:14I looked at him
17:15with disdain.
17:16We walked in the snow
17:18for who knows how long.
17:19We finally arrived
17:20at the first outpost.
17:22We went inside.
17:23The innkeeper
17:24was a one-armed man.
17:26He looked at Alpha Silas
17:27and went pale.
17:28My lord.
17:29Welcome.
17:30We have rooms prepared.
17:32We all took our seats.
17:34Selene sat at the head table,
17:36Phoebe on her lap,
17:37accepting compliments
17:38from the lesser betas.
17:40I sat in the corner
17:41watching her.
17:43Ain't this.
17:44It's warm.
17:45She passed me
17:45a plate of stew.
17:47Thin, but hot.
17:48Then at Selene,
17:49laughing softly
17:50at something,
17:51a guard said.
17:52Then, at Alpha Silas,
17:53who was staring
17:54into his wine.
17:57Quinn, do you know
17:58who that woman is?
17:59Lady Selene.
18:00She's the Alpha's
18:01companion.
18:03And that's her daughter, Phoebe.
18:04I tasted the word.
18:05It was bitter.
18:07Companion.
18:09And my mother.
18:10Quinn's face fell.
18:11I don't know, miss.
18:13I'm sorry.
18:15I am disappointed.
18:17I'm not hungry.
18:19Later that night,
18:20I couldn't sleep.
18:21I slipped from my room
18:22and crept toward the stables.
18:24As I passed the kitchen,
18:26I heard voices,
18:27low, familiar.
18:28I pressed myself
18:30against the wall
18:30and listened.
18:32A huge conspiracy
18:33is about to be uncovered.
18:36The little bitch is asleep.
18:38I saw her.
18:38She didn't touch her food.
18:40It was Quinn's voice.
18:41But the tone is wrong.
18:42Cold.
18:43Calculating.
18:44Good.
18:45The poison is in the stew.
18:47She'll be dead by morning.
18:49And then we can sell she to the market.
18:51Alpha Silas won't miss a hybrid.
18:52And the Alpha?
18:53He's sleeping in the East Wing.
18:55Selene has him wrapped around her finger.
18:56He won't notice a thing.
18:57Selene's a fool.
18:58She thinks she's using us.
18:59But once the girl is gone,
19:00we'll take the Omega pup
19:01and trade her too.
19:02Pure blood Omegas
19:03fetch a high price.
19:04My blood turned to ice.
19:06Quinn, my gentle,
19:07kind Quinn.
19:08It was all a lie.
19:09Every word.
19:10I kicked open.
19:11The kitchen door.
19:12And I burst inside.
19:14The one-armed innkeeper
19:15and Quinn spun out.
19:17Eyes wide.
19:18I rushed.
19:19The bone girl sank into her throat.
19:21She looked at me with disbelief.
19:23Then grabbed my arm tightly.
19:25The innkeeper roared and swung a cleaver.
19:28I ducked.
19:29Slashed at his legs.
19:30He fell.
19:30I drove the blade into his chest.
19:33It is all over.
19:35Alpha appeared at the door.
19:37Lyra.
19:38He looked at me with surprise,
19:40seemingly unable to believe
19:41that I had done it all.
19:44He slowly walked towards me
19:46and then asked,
19:47What have you done?
19:49I looked at him.
19:50They were going to kill me
19:51and sell Phoebe.
19:53This one.
19:54I know him.
19:55I looked at Quinn's body.
19:56He was a rogue.
19:57Tried to ambush my patrol last year.
19:59I let him live.
20:02He walked towards me.
20:05And this one?
20:06She was my servant.
20:08She pretended to be kind.
20:10She gave me poison stew.
20:12She was working for Selene.
20:14Alpha Silas' face went hard.
20:16Selene would never.
20:19Senno would never.
20:21I took out a knife and wiped it.
20:24Wouldn't she?
20:25She hates my mother.
20:26She hates me.
20:27She wants your pack.
20:29And she'll kill anyone who gets in her way.
20:31Her eyes were open,
20:32staring at nothing.
20:33Clean this up and bury them.
20:35Outside the walls.
20:37I stood alone in the kitchen.
20:38The blood was still warm on my hands.
20:41I looked down at Quinn's face.
20:43I'm sorry.
20:44I whispered.
20:45I wanted to believe you.
20:47I found Alpha Simus in the stables,
20:49gently grooming his dire wolf,
20:51not noticing my arrival at all.
20:52Why didn't you tell me about the poison?
20:54I retorting.
20:55Would you have believed me?
20:57You believe Selim is innocent?
20:59You believe my mother is a liar?
21:01Why would you believe me?
21:03He stopped grooming,
21:04turned to face me.
21:05His eyes were cold,
21:06but not angry.
21:07You killed a pack servant.
21:10Without proof.
21:11Without trial.
21:12He looked at me.
21:13Really looked.
21:14For the first time, I think.
21:16She was going to kill me.
21:17And you were sleeping.
21:20What would you have done?
21:22Held a trial in the morning?
21:24While I was dead?
21:25I locked eyes with him.
21:27You're Bimrali.
21:30You have your mother's eyes.
21:32And her temper.
21:33Not as a bastard.
21:34Not as a nuisance.
21:36But as something else.
21:37Something dangerous.
21:38The care seemed to freeze.
21:40This was the first time we looked at each other so calmly.
21:42No quarrels.
21:43No indifference.
21:44Only end in Spoken's emotions.
21:46He reached into his belt and pulled out a knife.
21:49Not a bone blade.
21:50A real knife.
21:50Take it.
21:51I stared at the knife, then at him.
21:54Why?
21:55He paused.
21:56Because you'll need it.
21:58The road ahead is dangerous.
21:59And I won't always be there to save you.
22:01I looked down at the knife.
22:03I took the knife.
22:04The metal was cold in my hand.
22:07He nodded.
22:08Get some sleep.
22:09We ride at dawn.
22:10I turned to leave, then stopped.
22:15Alpha Simus.
22:16My name is Lyra.
22:18Not hybrid.
22:20Not bastard.
22:23Lyra.
22:24He was silent for a moment.
22:25Then he nodded.
22:27Lyra.
22:28I walked out of the stables.
22:30The air was cold.
22:31But for the first time in years, I didn't feel the chill.
22:35I climbed into the supply carriage.
22:37Selene was asleep inside.
22:39Phoebe curled against her chest.
22:41I looked at them.
22:42Then at the knife in my hand.
22:43I could do it now.
22:44Kill them both.
22:46But not yet.
22:47Not until I had what I wanted.
22:49I sheathed the knife.
22:50And went to sleep.
22:55We traveled for three days.
22:57The landscape grew up.
23:03After a long journey, we finally arrived at a small town.
23:07People stared at our procession.
23:10The Alpha on his direwolf.
23:12The lady in her fine carriage.
23:14The supply cart with the hybrid bastard.
23:17On the fourth day, we stopped at a market town.
23:19Alpha Silas went to meet with the local beta.
23:24Selene took Phoebe shopping.
23:26I was left with the guards.
23:27I wandered the market.
23:28Looking for nothing.
23:29Just watching.
23:30In the afternoon, Alpha Silas ordered the guards to take...
23:33I should be with you.
23:34Whatever waits there.
23:35...back first.
23:36They need you safe.
23:37Phoebe needs her mother whole.
23:39I need to know you are behind walls when I face what comes.
23:43She relented.
23:45She took Phoebe and boarded the carriage with the guards.
23:49The carriage disappeared into the dust.
23:52Silas turned to Lyra.
23:54We ride east.
23:55She was last seen near the crumpling spires.
23:57Father and daughter, Alpha and hybrid, into the bleakening east.
24:02We reached Ravenmere County on the seventh day.
24:05There is no one here.
24:07It was a ghost town.
24:10Half the buildings were burned.
24:12The rest were falling down.
24:13The air smelled of ash and rot.
24:17Alpha Silas looked around.
24:19This is where she lived.
24:20Yes.
24:21This is where Gallows sold her.
24:23We rode to the edge of town.
24:25To a small house.
24:26Or, what was left of it.
24:27The roof was gone.
24:29The walls were crumbled.
24:30Leads flew through the floor.
24:31I slowly walked in.
24:33The memories hit me like a physical blow.
24:35My mother, singing.
24:36My brother, laughing.
24:38Gallows, drunk and angry.
24:39The night he sold her.
24:41I fell to my knees.
24:43The dust was wet.
24:44It had been raining.
24:45Or maybe it was my tears.
24:46I didn't know.
24:47I couldn't stop.
24:50Alpha Silas stood in the doorway.
24:52He didn't come in.
24:54Where is she?
24:55She's here.
24:56I looked up.
24:57My face was streaked with mud and tears.
25:00Alpha did not believe.
25:01I don't see her.
25:04She's here.
25:05In the ground.
25:06I started digging with my hands.
25:09The earth was soft.
25:11Wet.
25:12Alpha Silas watched.
25:13He didn't help.
25:14He just watched.
25:15After an hour, I hit something.
25:17Bone.
25:18Small.
25:19Fragile.
25:19I pulled it out.
25:20A child's rib.
25:21Then another.
25:23These aren't hers.
25:24These are a child's.
25:25My brother.
25:28Gallows killed him.
25:30And buried him here.
25:32With her.
25:34I kept digging.
25:35Deeper.
25:35The rain fell harder.
25:37I didn't care.
25:38I found a skull.
25:39Small.
25:40Broken.
25:41Mama.
25:44This isn't her.
25:49What?
25:51This is a child's skull.
25:53Your mother was an adult.
25:54These bones are too small.
25:57Then where is she?
25:59I don't know.
26:00But I'll find her.
26:02And when I do, I'll kill Gallows.
26:06I'll help you.
26:09Good.
26:10Because you're the only one who knows what he's capable of.
26:13We buried the bones.
26:14My brother's bones.
26:16In a shallow grave behind the house.
26:18I didn't have a marker.
26:19Just a stone.
26:21I need to find my mama.
26:23So I must pretend to get close to him.
26:25And his wolf clan.
26:27Lyra.
26:27He spoke slowly.
26:30You're coming with me.
26:31To Iron Moon Pack.
26:33Perfect for me.
26:34Yes, father.
26:35I'm coming with you.
26:35I'm coming with you.
26:35I'm coming with you.
26:36I'm coming with you.
26:36I'm coming with you.
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